intermediate~2h
AWS KMS & Encryption
AWS's managed key management service — how encryption keys are created, controlled, and used across AWS services without you handling raw key material yourself.
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🎓 Learning objectives
- •Explain what a Customer Master Key (KMS key) is and how it differs from a data key
- •Explain envelope encryption and why AWS uses it instead of encrypting large data directly with a KMS key
- •Explain how IAM and KMS key policies work together to control key usage
- •Distinguish AWS-managed, customer-managed, and AWS-owned KMS keys
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